Sunday, July 13, 2008

The following is by El Camino HS Cross Country coach Jason Jimenez.Feel free to comment or add your thoughts in the comment box below.

I took the top teams with the top 5 returning runners fromSections. If a team did not have a top 5 returning, I used JV times.If they had no JV times, I used frosh/soph times for frosh/soph boyswho I think might be able to be a top 5 runner for their team. Thiswas easy because a lot of the best frosh/soph runners had run the 5kcourse before so I could get an idea of what each team's top 5 wouldend up being.

Obviously, we don't know about the surprises and myrankings do leave out teams who could not field 5 runners. And some ofthese teams will likely be a factor later in the year (see WoodcreekD2, for example). Some ones I'm not sure about are Granite Bay (WaltLange from Jesuit says they will be good so...) and El Camino - whomight be moving up to Division 2. Ok here they are...

Boys D1-3**Woodcreek, Fairfield and Grace Davis seem to be out of contention atthis point in the season but who knows what can happen this summer.

Thats very true. Everyone out there is working just like everyone else. Just because some may not have as fast of a pr as someone else or because they are in a smaller division, dosnt mean they dont deserve a ranking or mention.

Div 4 and 5 do deserved to be ranked obviously. We are not trying to slight anyone. But as competitive as one might think these divisions are, when you considered them at their section levels, they do not often compare to the upper divisions (usually 1-2-3).